Casket-handle.



E. R. SARGENT.

CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATIOh FILED JUNE 2, 1912.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

QM BY ATTORNEY. I

EDWARD R. SARGENT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT & COM- PANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CASKET-HANDLE.

Application filed June 2, 1917.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, EDWARD R. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Casket- Handles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to casket handles, and more especially to those comprising an elongated handle bar suspended by pivoted arms from one or more socket plates. The invention also'has particular reference to handles of this type in which both the socket plate and the arm are constructed of sheet metal.

One of the primary objects of the invention is to provide a very strong and substantial, but yet cheap and simple form, of pivotal connection between the arm and the socket plate. I

wherein the assemblage of the parts 'may be very readily performed.

To these, and other ends, the invention consists in the novel features and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front-elevation of the plate and arm.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a rearelevation. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4.% of Fig. 3, showing the arm in the pendant position. I

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing the arm in the raised position. Fig. 6 is a section on line 66 of Fig. 3, and i Fig. 7 is a detail of the arm.

socket The socket plate 10 is preferably made of Specification of Letters Patent. t t 5 1325, 91%

Serial No. 172,465.

in said aperture, while the lower end of the arm 13 is provided with a strap or socket portion 14 to receive the usual handle bar, which I have not considered it necessary to illustrate. Applied to the rear surface of the plate, behind the aperture or opening 12 is a support for the arm, which support is l2, and provided with flat portions 15, se-

cured to the rear surfaces of the plate 10 by rivets 16. At the extremities of the bridge plate, the same is bent rearward, as shown at 15. The end portions 15 are arranged to abut against the wall of the box or casket for a purpose hereinafter pointed out.

The arm 13 is bent up from a sheet metal plate, and is of U-shapedcross section, as shown in Fig. 7. The side walls 17 of this arm are enlarged at the top of the arm, as shown at 18, and the parts 18 fit against the sides of the aperture 12, and their rear edges extend into proximity to the front face of the curved part 15 of the bridge piece.

This bridge piece is of slightly less width than the arm, so that the side walls of the arm extend laterally beyond the side edges of the bridge piece, as shown in Fig. 3. The enlargements or heads 18 of the arm are each provided with a rearwardly ex tending lug 19, and these lugs are bent over to engage the rear surface of the bridge piece, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to hold the parts in assembled relation. Before the parts are assembled, the lugs 19 lie in the planes of the heads 18 When the arm is inserted into the approximately semi-cylindrical socketformed by the bridge piece in connection with the socket plate, the lugs 19 pass rearwardly beyond the bridge piece at the side edges thereof. They may then be readily bent over the bridge piece and ham mered down, as shown in Fig. 3, so as to retain the arm permanently in place. This connection allows the arm to move pivotally in the socket. Outward movement of the arm is prevented by the lugs 19, and when the arm is raised and lowered by a pivotal movement in its socket, the lugs are guided ner, a considerable part of the strain is on the rear surface of the bridge plate, which presents an arc-shaped guide.

'At the upper end of thearm the front wall is terminated at a point adjacent'the enlargements 18. The upper edge 20 of the front wall is adapted to cooperate with a stop for arresting the upward movement of the arm in "the proper position. In'theexample shown, the intermediate curvedpart of the bridge P1668 has an integral stop proje-ction 21 struckout of the same in a for: ward direction, so as to lie in the path of the edge 20. The stop 21 is in the form of a shoulder or tongue, having an upwardly directed edge adapted to be contacted by;

the edge 20 when the arm is swung up into the position shown in Fig. 5. In this mantaken up by the bridge piece, and the bridge piece is directly supported from the box wall by the extensions 15 sothat the lifting strain is transmitted quite directly to the box wall. I

By providing the bridge piece wlth the end extensions, as described, it is feasible to make the socket plate proper of quite thin material, provided the bridge piece is madeof heavy material, because when the ends of the bridge piece are supported directly from the box, it can take up the greater part of the liftingst'rain.

Without limiting myself to the precise construction shown, I claim:

1. A caskethandle or the like, comprising a plate having a rearwardly sunken, semicylindrical socket, and an arm in said socket having'a pair of securing lugs passing behind thesocket' portion and bent over so as to ride on the rear surface of the rear wall of said socket.

2. A casket handle or the like, comprising a plate having a rearwardly sunken, semicylindrical socket, the rear wall of said socket being of less widththan the opening at the fro'ntof the socket, and an arm fitting in said socket and having securing lugs at v the sides of said rear wall bent overtoward each other into engagement with the rear surface of said wall.

3. A casket handle or the like, comprisinga plate having an aperture, a curved bridge piece applied to the rear surface of the plate and against the rear surface of said bridge piece.

5. In a casket handle or the like, the combinationof a plate having an aperture, a

bridge, piece extending vertically across said aperture at the rear of the plate, rivets for securing said bridge piece to the plate, the wall of said bridge piece located behind said aperture being curved to present a substantially semi-cylindrical socket, and an 1 arm having a head engaging said socket and provided at the sides with lugs guided on the rear surface of the bridge piece.

6. In a caskethandle or the like, a sheet I metal plate having an opening, a supporting plate riveted to said first plate back of said opening, and a vertically swinging arm extending through said opening into proximity to said supporting plate and having a lug bent laterally and horizontally over the backv of said supporting plate.

7. In a casket handle or the like, a socket plate having an opening, a supporting plate at the rear of said socket plate having a rearwardly curved portion, rivets for connecting said supporting plate with said socket plate above and below the said; opening, and an arm having a portion passing through-said opening and provided 'withja retaining lug bent laterally to engage and ride on the rear surfaceof the curvedportion of said supporting plate.

8. In a caskethandle or thelik'e, a socket plate having an opening, an arm having an enlargement extending through said opening, said enlargement having an integral lug at the rear part, and acurved bridge, piece applied to the rear surface of the socket plate and cooperating with said lug to retain said arm against outward displacement and provide for the pivotal movement thereofi f v 9. In a casket handle or the like,a socket plate having an opening, an arm having an enlargement extending through said opening, said enlargement having an integral lug at the rear part, and a curved, bridge piece applied to the rear surface of the socket plate and cooperating with said lugto retain said arm against outward displacement and provide for the pivotal movement thereof, one or more ends of said bridge piece being bent rearwardly, to contact with the wall of the casket. 1

10. In a casket handle or the like, a socket plate having a rearwardly sunken, semicylindrical socket, the rear wall of said socket being provided with anintermediate pro ection presenting an upwardly facing stop, andanarm having lugs passing rearwardly at the sidesof the rear wall of said socket and bent overat the rear of said wall, said armhavinga stop edge intermediate said lugs to cooperate with the first mentioned stop. i

socket having a curved edge portion, aswinging arm having a head or enlargement in in said socket in front of said bridge piece, said socket, and a lug on said head or enand a lug on said arm portion extending to largement bent laterally over the edge of the rear of said bridge piece and bent over said rear Wall and guided thereon in the the curved edge thereof so as to be guided 5 swinging movement of the arm. thereon in the swinging movement of the 15 12. In a casket handle or the like, a socket arm. plate having an opening, a brldge piece se- In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set cured to said plate at the rear of said openmy hand on the 1st day of June, 1917. ing and having a curved side edge, a swing- 10 ing sheet metal arm having a portion located EDWARD R. SARGENT.

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